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Article: MAYOR BLOOMBERG ANNOUNCES THAT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATE REACHES HISTORIC HIGH OF 60 PERCENT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 21, 2007
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The office of the New York City Mayor issued the following press release:
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced that the four-year high school graduation rate in New York City has reached 60%, the highest level since the City began calculating the rate in 1986 and an 18% increase since the Mayor assumed control of the public schools in 2002. The gains mirrored the increases reported last month by the New York State Education Department, which, using a different methodology, put the City's rate at 50%, a rise of 14% since 2004, when the State began reporting comprehensive graduation rates. Applying the State's methodology retroactively to 2002, the graduation rate of New York City ...
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Article: Graduation rate lags nation: Columbus struggling, ...
Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH);
April 19, 2006 ;
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... ... their high-school graduation rate at nearly 60 percent that year. Columbus' graduation rate ranked 77 th out of ... 96 th, just above New York City and Detroit ... district is confident its graduation rate is higher now. Its ...
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